i thought it was a debut, but apparently cosby wrote My Darkest Prayer a few years back and it slipped right past me. If you like this book, or sympathetic antiheroes in general, come see this booklist thing i wrote for f(r)ictionĪ mistake is a lesson, unless you make the same mistake twice. Looking for great books to read during black history month.and the other eleven months? i'm going to float some of my favorites throughout the month, and i hope they will find new readers! I cannot thank enough to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for sharing this fantastic Arc with me in exchange my honest review. Everything is so real, shocking, soul crushing. There is no cliche, no pretense, no exaggeration. It was more effective than watching an action packed, exciting thriller. You just have to learn what’s gonna happen next by yourself but I’m so sure for one thing: as soon as you get this book into your hands, you will be captivated by the high skilled, mesmerizing writing and well-developed characters, getting lost in dark, intense, realistic crime world. He has too at stake so one more driving job won’t make things worse, right?īut as you may imagine, things can get more complicated than he expected! So he needs to cheat for winning this game. He is still a good man who is dealt a very bad hand. He cannot deny the dark side’s calling: he enjoys the speed, adrenaline rush, facing the danger like a sea breeze brushing his cheeks. The passion of racing is in his blood, soul. He is not Dominic Toretto! Nope, he’s incarcerated Steve McQueen. He hears the sound of screaming tires, smelling the dust of asphalt, shivering with adrenaline pumping. He needs to find ANOTHER SOURCE TO GET OUT OF HIS GROWING DEPTH PROBLEM ASAP! It’s simple and clear: He cannot make his ends meet. He wants to keep the roof over their heads and conduct a successful business but he fails: he is behind the mortgage payment of his car shop and he gets a call from his mother’s nursing home inform him they’re so close to kick his mother out. He wanted to be a good husband, a good father who is capable to provide his own children’s needs. Bug loses the fight with his inner demons, hearing whispers to his father who introduced him to the criminal life when he was younger boy. You feel the several harsh slaps of reality against cheek throughout your reading journey.īeauregard a.k.a.

Nope, I cannot give anything less than five gazillion stars because from the first pages, breathtaking, action packed, truly dramatic Beauregard Montage’s story enhances you. Fascinating, invigorating, raw, harsh, adrenaline pumping, one of the greatest reads of the year highly recommended to the lovers of tasty crime novels and noir genre.

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